external hdd problem

2007-05-13 Thread tom arnall
I'm trying to get an external hdd working. (The maker is Magnetic Data Technologies.) When I try to mount it I get the 'tell me about the format' message. Last time I dealt with one of these I just hooked it up and it worked. Any ideas? tom arnall arcata, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

external hdd problem APOLOGIES

2007-05-13 Thread tom arnall
to get an external hdd working. (The maker is Magnetic Data Technologies.) When I try to mount it I get the 'tell me about the format' message. Last time I dealt with one of these I just hooked it up and it worked. Any ideas? tom arnall arcata, ca Impeach them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

upgrade to debian testing removes text on gnome-terminal frames

2006-10-26 Thread tom arnall
me an idea for researching the problem, I would be grateful. i am running debian testing. tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrade to debian testing removes text on gnome-terminal frames

2006-10-26 Thread tom arnall
PS. the login screen has the same problem. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-27 Thread tom arnall
on it. i'm running debian testing and gdm. when i do: pstree -p |grep X i get: |-gdm(4683)---gdm(4684)-+-Xorg(4701) tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-28 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:30:00 -0700, tom arnall wrote: I upgraded my debian testing system y'day and now the type on many of the frame areas of diff' applications has been replaced by empty boxes. this is true on the frames

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-28 Thread tom arnall
Another problem has emerged since my upgrade. When I try to run gaim, I get the following message and the thing dies: gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options i removed gaim and

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-28 Thread tom arnall
. For others giving back is trying directly to solve problems in the community. I hope that in the future both of us will be able to make contributions of the latter type. tom arnall north spit, ca usa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-28 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:45, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:51:25PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Another problem has emerged since my upgrade. When I try to run gaim, I get the following message and the thing dies: gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-29 Thread tom arnall
the reinstall worked! gaim is functioning normally. but i still get the dpkg error message. serious warning: files list file for package `gaim-data' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. my research on the problem says that to get rid of the message one should

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-29 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:51, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: and now how do I fix the problem? That error message is kind of terrifying. I'd try: apt-get install --reinstall gaim gaim-data Aacchh! was wrong about gaim being restored

upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-30 Thread tom arnall
11:30 \ libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1400.7 I ran pango-querymodules, and this helped some of the font problems in other programs. I tried reinstalling libpango1.0-0. But no change with gaim run as non-root. When I run gaim as root, it's fine, and there is no error message. tom arnall

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-31 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if I run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving: gaim: symbol lookup

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-31 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:52, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:41:51 -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems

delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread tom arnall
Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc? tom arnall north spit, ca usa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 02 November 2006 12:59, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:24:34AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc? Hi tom, it depends upon which flavor of Debian

smooth upgrades

2006-11-12 Thread tom arnall
of the two versions of Debian - unstable and testing - which is the most likely to provide smooth upgrades? thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

2006-11-12 Thread tom arnall
i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have found a nubmer of problems on my system. the most recent is that i can't run gaim properly. when i try to, the screen appears momentarily and then goes away, leaving the folowing error message in the console. D-Bus library

Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

2006-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have found a nubmer of problems on my system. the most recent is that i can't run gaim properly. when i try

Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

2006-11-18 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:11, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 15:50:33 -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: i did an upgrade of my testing system recently

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-18 Thread tom arnall
? also, what is the best way to find out when Etch has become stable? thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca Make cyberspace pretty: stamp out curly brackets and semicolons. Loosen up; the tests extend the compiler. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-19 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 18 December 2006 11:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:59:26AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2006 17:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: I assume that you mean that upgrades

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:33:10AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 11:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: largely. Are you currently pointed at testing or at etch? If at testing, you might want to change

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable' in sources.list once i've replaced 'testing' with 'etch'? or have the ref's to 'stable' been

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 19:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: and until 'etch' becomes 'stable

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-21 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:45, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:00:05AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fnd apt_preferences /usr/share/man/es/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-21 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 21 December 2006 11:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:20:09PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:06:54AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:45, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:00:05AM -0800

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-26 Thread tom arnall
put a '#' sign in front of each entry? tom arnall north spit, ca usa Make cyberspace pretty: stamp out curly brackets and semicolons ;) Relax - the tests extend the compiler. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trying to get wine to work

2007-08-01 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i try to run, i get in the wine log the message: wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory suggestions begged. tom arnall

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-02 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:12, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: OP: tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i try to run, i get in the wine log the message: wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ failed to map

trying to get unicode to work in perl

2007-08-07 Thread tom arnall
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.gdm5HJEWT _=/usr/bin/env [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks in advance, tom arnall

Re: trying to get unicode to work in perl

2007-08-08 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 23:16, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, :utf8); print chr(0x263a)' I get garbage

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-12 Thread tom arnall
) = 0 exit_group(126) = ? Process 3958 detached [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Wenlin3$ Thanks again for your help. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system

2007-09-11 Thread tom arnall
firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M. thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system

2007-09-11 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00:09AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M. more info. what pages? what plugins are installed etc etc etc

Re: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system

2007-09-13 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00:09AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M. more info. what pages? what plugins are installed etc etc etc

trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidgin/pidgin-2.2.0# Thanks, tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 24 September 2007 13:19, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:06:16PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system and get the following error message. What should I do about it. (i did an update just before the upgrade attempt

trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
fixme:atl:AtlModuleInit SEMI-STUB (0xb89340 0xb89178 0xb8) err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c005 flags 0 addr 0x34dcac Thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 24 September 2007 14:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:05:45PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch. I can get it to install, but when I try to run it the thing dies and I get: I know this is not a real

Re: trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 24 September 2007 14:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:56:59PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 13:19, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:06:16PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to do an upgrade to my

trying to create openq plugin for gaim from source but can't do 'make'

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
-0.3.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/zips/openq/openq-0.3.2$ any ideas most welcome. tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trying to get QQ to run under wine

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
that i'm not sure if it includes the chinese-english translation feature. thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-24 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:32, you wrote: On 25/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 17:54, you wrote: On 25/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 16:24, you wrote: On 24/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:48, you wrote: On 25/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 19:32, you wrote: On 25/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 17:54, you wrote: On 25/09/2007, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED

trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
]:~/zips/pidginRH$ pidgin bash: pidgin: command not found i've looked e'where on the system but find nothing resembling an executable for pidgin. thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:40, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 14:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:05:45PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch. I can get

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the source but compile died

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the source but compile died

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:19, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i

HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
'? Thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HELP! can't become root POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
'? Thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: wow, that's ugly

trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
with arecord or aplay? is there another program which is better for this? thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 14:07, you wrote: On 10/3/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': arecord -d 5 file.wav Have you checked the mixer settings - specially is the microphone plugged in to the right input and is the slider

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: On 10/3/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. having never tried arecord I tried it out - on lenny

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 17:45, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: On 10/3/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: On 10/3/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. having never tried arecord I tried it out - on lenny

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION - POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: On 10/3/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. having never tried arecord I tried it out - on lenny

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-04 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: wow, that's ugly

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-05 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 04 October 2007 20:30, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:06:56PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [...] I've been running

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-05 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-05 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 05 October 2007 10:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:47:04AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 20:30, Rob Mahurin wrote: ... Can you sudo chmod to repair your permissions damage? I can send you an output from find /dev -ls if you

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-05 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 05 October 2007 11:17, Sven Joachim wrote: tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there is a change in the behavior when i try to log in as root. instead of: setgid: Operation not permitted after inputting the password, i get: login incorrect right after inputting 'root'. Do

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 10:53, Thilo Six wrote: John Stumbles wrote the following on 06.10.2007 17:39 -snip- But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? It depends on your partitionlayout. Apart from that: tom

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Thanks, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:25, Thilo Six wrote: tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13 -snip- Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making an entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do. sudo will do that for you without extra

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:58, Thilo Six wrote: David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52 -snip- Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up. You mean something like checking each and

can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Here is the question: lets say you fix the initial problem and CAN log

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Here is the question: lets say you fix the initial problem and CAN log

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-10 Thread tom arnall
Well, I got a list of perm's for stuff in /dev (from a sarge system. I'm on etch). There were only two diff's: two sound devices. But there are lots of insane permissions throughout the rest of the system. Is this because when I did 'chmod -R 777 /dev' I also in effect did 'chmod -R 777

trying to get glame to play .wav files

2007-10-17 Thread tom arnall
. 'aplay' and 'play' work fine. The only thing that is different in my use of 'glame' is that yesterday I rigged a filter setup and played with it. I'm pretty sure the thing was playing files ok after setting up the filter. Thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread tom arnall
When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it as root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok. tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it as root ('sudo'), or use

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Argh!! On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:35:13PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Reading changelogs... Done

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 13:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:36:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Argh!! thanks for your patience. can it be old age? ;o) at any rate: it happens, eh? [EMAIL

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you mean everything under /var, not just the immediate subdirectories? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src

want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-08 Thread tom arnall
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package xserver-xorg-video-intel shouldn't anything available at the debian site be also available to apt? thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 November 2007 08:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:41:23PM -0800, David Fox wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 12:24 PM, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01

spurious error log messages?

2007-11-15 Thread tom arnall
OR: wnNov 15 11:50:27 localhost kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev:\ usb-:00:1d.0-1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-16 Thread tom arnall
}(3699) | |-{firefox-bin}(4856) | |-{firefox-bin}(4860) | |-{firefox-bin}(4861) | |-{firefox-bin}(4862) | `-{firefox-bin}(4863) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ thanks, tom arnall

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 16 November 2007 19:46, Russell L. Harris wrote: * tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071116 14:21]: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. I've noticed the same on my system within the past month or so. RLH so far, starting in safe mode

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 17 November 2007 03:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: tom arnall wrote: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. and when i do a 'ps' for it, i get: snip Etch, Lenny, Sid? Etch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 13:05, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it as root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok. tom arnall arcata removing downloads.rdf fixed

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-18 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 17 November 2007 11:19, tom arnall wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 19:46, Russell L. Harris wrote: * tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071116 14:21]: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. I've noticed the same on my system within

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-18 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 17 November 2007 11:19, tom arnall wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 19:46, Russell L. Harris wrote: * tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071116 14:21]: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. I've noticed the same on my system within

latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled by a wysiwig. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with this mail. what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:15, Russell L. Harris wrote: * tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070224 17:28]: On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-25 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 11 February 2007 21:57, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:51:35AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 02:12, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, quoting from your my.cnf # WARNING: Using expire_logs_days without bin_log crashes the server! See

trouble connecting to some wifi access points

2007-03-03 Thread tom arnall
like this one I can't connect. Thanks very much in advance, tom arnall north spit, ca usa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble connecting to some wifi access points

2007-03-12 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:53, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:45:49AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: I am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi APs in my neighborhood. Following is my connection script. sudo iwconfig ath0 essid linksys sudo iwconfig ath0 ap 00

when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- what is the problem with this one? ;o) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:34, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root

system is going crazy with disk-head parking

2008-03-08 Thread tom arnall
9 Power_On_Hours 13667 i have researched this on the net and tried some of the suggested fixes, but so far without any result. thanks, tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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